There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Every artists wants to be applauded

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.